Professional Development

Opportunities to adapt and enhance existing provision to include a vocational/work-based learning programme would offer an immediate solution to developing routes into the planning profession, a report recommends.

The chartered town planner apprenticeship is going from strength to strength despite the effects of the pandemic, according to the RTPI.

Almost a quarter of planners have lost earnings as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, with most losses concentrated in the private sector.

Dr Wei Yang FRTPI has pledged to inform and update the public on the purpose of town planning in her year as president of the RTPI.